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sults. As I said before, I fear I do not know very much more about the libraries of other state universities than what has been said. As far as the library with which I have the honor to be connected is concerned, I think we have a few more books there than you have in this one at the present time, but I hope it will not be long before there are many more here. But we have nothing to compare with this magnificent building home of this library which you have here, and for that I must confess I have a little covetuous feeling. I cannot but help wishing that the institution with which I am connected had a building like this. One thing that I came down here for is to get pointers, and I am getting them. You have made an advance here which will be an example to every other institution, and since it is getting so much ahead it is time for us to pull up on her.
I sincerely hope that you will have your home full of books inside of twelve months. The state can do it, and I sincerely hope it will. There is perhaps a little bit of selfishness about this. I like to go home and tell the people of Iowa what Kansas has done, and although they cannot do it all, they will probably come as close as they can. This is my spirit and you can get the benefit of it.
I will not continue further, but before taking my seat will take the opportunity to thank the people of Kansas University for the kind and cordial welcome that I have received.
Rev. J. B. Thomas : "Church and University."
Unlike my brother I did not even have notice served upon me that I was going to be asked to speak on this topic until I had got my soup. It had a different effect upon me than it had on him. I really thought that the waiter had put something into it. I am reminded of the following anecdote: Two deacons of a certain church had got into a little squabble as to the capability of each to recite the Lord's prayer. One saying that he was sure the other could not repeat it correctly. I will bet you five dollars said the other that I know it. So the bet was taken and put in the hands of an old ped-
lar standing near. The brother began "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep and if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." "Oh," said the other, "hand him over the five dollars, I had no idea that he knew it." That is something of the addled state of my brain when I received that little card.
The Church and the University. We have heard from my friend Ware, and he always strikes the right note. I was up in the mountains with him last summer in Colorado, when my little girl, who is quite musical, heard a burrow. "Do you know that burrow sings on the same key each time," I remarked, and brother Ware said, "Yes, he always sings on 'Donkey.'" And when he gave us that little historical sketch in which we were all interested, and from that lead up to this beautiful building in which we are all interested, it struck me that we had got a key that might bring in something of the University and the Church. The truth is always a unit wherever we may find it. We have to keep up with the times. No nation ever rises above the ideals of its own church. They must stand above it, or it cannot rise. The church must be built and upheld by the institutions of a country. It seems to me that the relationship between the church and the university is at least a three fold relationship:
It is a co-operative relationship. A relationship that has to do with the equality of the soul and the mind. They are co-operative, but there are those who might separate them. They cannot be separated. We can easily tell the difference between mind and matter, but when it comes to the soul and the purely mental, it seems to me that they are at least co-operative. Truth is always the same, whether gotten at through the heart, or what we call religious sense, or through the mind, or what we term mental sense.
Then they are not only co-operative, but they are reciprocal. The church must give to the world the desire for culture,and the desire for culture resulting in the cultured mind and renewed heart,the life must redound to the